Introduction to International Development / Making Sense in the Social Sciences Pack

by Paul Haslam, Jessica Schafer, Pierre Beaudet

International Development programs at the undergraduate level have burgeoned throughout the world in recent years. Formerly found on the margins of mainstream academic units, and largely confined to graduate studies, these programs pioneered both multidisciplinarity and praxis (the combination of academic analysis and real-world engagement with development issues) in the university and college setting. The appeal and common sense behind this approach, as well as the way development studies has connected with students' values, has brought development into the mainstream academy as an identifiable discipline. The Introduction to International Development Studies textbook sets out to respond to the particular needs of undergraduate international development programs - namely their inherent multidisciplinarity and their normative concern with praxis. Previous texts have typically been anchored within specific disciplinary traditions and have generally overlooked contributions from other disciplines to crucial debates in international development. Given that most international development programs of study are multidisciplinary in nature, there is a clear need for a text that is explicitly multidisciplinary in its approach to the key issues.

528 pages, Paperback

Published November 20, 2009

About the author

Paul Haslam obtained a Ph.D. in political studies from Queen’s University. Prior to joining the University of Ottawa, he also worked at the Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL), a non-governmental organization based in Ottawa that worked on issues of public policy in Latin America. Professor Haslam’s teaching and research interests span both international development and international political economy. His current research focuses on corporate social responsibility, state-firm relations in Latin America (particularly Argentina and Chile), the international regulation of foreign direct investment in Latin America, and the evolution of the Inter-American System. In 2011-12 he was Director of the School of International Development and Global Studies.